Review: Butterfly Effects

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Tor for the pre-release copy of Seanan McGuire's Butterfly Effects. Below is my honest review.

It's no secret that Seanan McGuire is one of my absolute favorite authors. I'll shout about her works from the mountain tops. She's so good! And this one is further proof that she walks around on the daily with ENTIRE WORLDS living in her head. I have no idea how she gets anything done when all of these stories and characters and alternate dimensions and storylines all take up space in her noggin!

But she gets them down on paper and shares them with us, and I'm thankful for that.

This one picks up some of the threads left behind after Sarah's books and weaves them back into the main story again, and I am absolutely thrilled with how this one went down. What a ride!

I can't say too much without spoiling things, but I think if you've read the rest of the series, the payoff of some longstanding story threads will really satisfy you.

Five stars, highly recommended, but you're going to spoil most of the rest of the series if you pick this one up first. It's a culmination of so many character storylines that it's a bad place to start.

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Review: The Fox and the Devil

The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Del Rey for the pre-release copy of The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White. Below is my honest review.

I'm gonna be completely honest. I saw Kiersten White and I clicked request. I'm not even entirely sure I read the blurb before starting this one, because the farther I went in, my brain was like, "did you know this was a Van Helsing/Vampire-esque novel?"

And it was exactly what I needed. I love vampy stuff, so I was pleasantly surprised.

I really liked the side characters, especially Maher and Mama, and really enjoyed watching the team track and hunt a killer over the course of a few years. It was a fun ride.

Definitely recommend to horror-ish mystery fans.

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Review: When I Was Death

When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers for the pre-release copy of When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson. Below is my honest review.

When I Was Death is about a lot of things. It's about a girl getting roped into a deal with Death to travel with a group of other girls who made deals and reaping souls for him. It's about a girl dealing with the death of her sister and putting her life back together. It's about a girl coming into her own. It's about forming friendships and realizing that people aren't perfect.

Where it shines though? It's a book about grief and processing loss and finding ways to move forward in a world that isn't the same any more.

Absolutely loved this book. I read it in 2 sittings, as it was very compelling and hard to put down.

Definitely recommend this to Henderson fans, but also recommended to YA-adjacent fans, horror-adjacent fans (I definitely wouldn't label this horror, but it's a little dark), and people who just like good compelling stories.

Five stars.

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